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So I downloaded Daggerfall XL...

...And I couldn't get past the first rat. For real. I look straight at the little guy, the little squeaky fellow and I swing and swing my sword and I cannot hit him. I'm sorry. I felt the necessity to share this. Skyrim's dragon? Ain't no thang. Daggerfall rats, crazy hard.

I was thinking of starting Daggerfall soon. (not the XL version as that's nowhere near finished is it?).

Sounds like I should read up a little before I start? Or maybe it isn't the game for me? I like discovering things. I dislike using maxmin builds as they're boring and reduce play choice to simply following a list of instructions.

Daggerfall punishes exploration. Especially in the first dungeon. Some rooms WILL kill you unless you made the "right" decisions during character generation, but ALL "death-trap" rooms can be avoided (if I remember correctly, the imp for example is in a room you do not have to pass).

I miss climbing and jumping and flight.

*sighs*

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Definitely going back with the same character. What a marvellous loser he is.

Can't really tell if you're joking...but, that's not a good idea. If your character is down in the shit abyss that early on, it's not gonna be much fun when you encounter bandits and skeletons. Just choose one of the pre-made characters if you're having so much trouble.

Wizardry said that Daggerfall is the best of the series. Is this game really better than Morrowind? I might give it a go but if the graphics are too horrible I might give it a pass.

The graphics aren't the problem, though they are very simple and uninteresting compared to the style of Morrowind; it's that everything in the game is randomized and procedurally generated, so unless you like seeing the same basic town structure over and over, and walking across seemingly endless expanses of empty terrain, and doing the same set of quests, you won't have much fun with it.

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Well, I like exploring and discovering things myself. Reading solutions on a wiki (whether it's how to minmax a character build, what spells to use, etc) is defeating the point of playing the game. (Which is why I'm not going to win a game of Dom3 anytime soon!). But on the otherhand, I want to avoid creating a character so useless I can't do anything with him/her.